At-Home Self-Care Retreat

The At-Home Self Care Retreat gives you one day to claim a well-deserved reset. Self-care retreats are trendy for mental health, meditation, personal growth and wellness.

Before you shell out the big bucks, add this DIY self-love retreat into your self care plan. Our wellness retreat provides an hour by hour self-love retreat template along with tips to prepare yourself and your environment.

at-home self-care retreat

Why Are Self-Care Retreats Important?

While spending a day just on yourself seems easy enough, the challenging part is truly scheduling it in. Marking time off the calendar to only focus on self-love is harder than it sounds! That’s why we created a 1-day self-care template to help you block out the day with no distractions.

Within our self-care retreat, you’ll give your body and mind time to renew itself, set intentions for the season, become more mindful with your body’s needs, detox your body and mind, and get inspired.

Retreats are incredibly important, no matter when, where, or why you do them. The “why” is the keyword here because a DIY self-care retreat at home gives you the freedom to customize your schedule and build in the activities you need to feel rejuvenated.

We suggest following our self-love retreat plan template once a season and keep your notes from each retreat. That way, you can build yearly theme into your self-guided retreat.

Preparing For Your Self-Love Retreat

This 1-day self-love retreat plan was designed as a mental detox and mindfulness retreat. Follow the plan template alone or with your significant other. However, set boundaries and expectations of the at-home wellness retreat with yourself and your partner.

We recommend that you make a plan beforehand by customizing and writing out your schedule in advance (because no electronics are allowed!) Also, decide what healthy meals you’ll be eating and have the groceries already in the fridge.

Plus, lay out what books or journals you want to read or write in. Taking the night before to prepare will help the day run smoothly. We also recommend not drinking alcohol the night before to allow yourself a full night of restful sleep because we don’t want you waking up to an alarm clock (BONUS!)

If others in your household aren’t participating in your at-home self-care retreat, ask them to make other plans and not to disturb you in a specific part of the house, like the bedroom. For us, there’s no better reason to have the kids at a sleepover or to hire a babysitter for the day. That’s money very well-spent!

Finally, the DIY self-love retreat is designed so it can be tailored to your needs. As we mention above, we want you to wake up without an alarm clock. This, we realize, can throw your tightly scheduled calendar for a loop but that’s the point. Keep it easy and keep it flexible.

The goal is for you to feel restful, relaxed, and renewed by the following day.

The Self-Care Plan

Firstly, this DIY personal retreat is highly focused on sleep. Sleep debt numbers are higher than ever and getting a good night’s sleep is a priority. Plus, any diets or exercise that you try won’t be as effective without sleep. You can read our personal story about the importance of sleep if you need any more convincing.

Thirdly, there are two short workouts included: 30-minutes of restorative yoga and 30-minutes of active stretching. These workouts are available for free with a free trial to Beachbody On Demand. Whatever you do, don’t skip these and follow the instructors. They were hand-selected for our self-care retreat plan because of the methods they use to focus on recovery.

Finally, we’ve recommended personal development books that don’t suck to allow self-growth. Any personal development book will do, and we give a suggestion below. While you can choose any book on your reading list, we recommend that you take this opportunity to select a self-help or personal development book. These can range from mindfulness to minimalism to nutrition.

7:30 – 8:30 PM

8:30 – 9:00 PM

Spend time pampering yourself and relaxing with a face mask while tidying and “closing down” before bed

9:00 – 9:30 PM

Silent meditation focused on what you are grateful for. Finish with a journal entry about what you liked about the day and ideas for a future DIY personal retreat or your plans to declutter your home

9:30 PM

Sleep

Next Steps

An at-home self-care retreat is a wonderful way to hit the pause button to reflect on your year so far and how you want to transform the rest of it. Let us know your thoughts in the comments below and how you customized this 1-day self-love retreat plan!

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